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Open by Design - The Advantages of the OpenDocument Format (ODF)

Resource: Submitted by erwintenhumberg on Tue, 2007-01-02 15:46. Last updated on Fri, 2007-11-09 18:24.

The introductory white paper "Open by Design - The Advantages of the OpenDocument Format (ODF)" has been published by the OASIS OpenDocument Format Adoption TC. The document can be found here.

ODF Overview & Introduction

Resource: Submitted by dpharbison on Tue, 2006-11-28 15:38. Last updated on Tue, 2007-02-13 19:49.

This presentation provides an overview and introduction to ODF, now ISO/IEC 26300.

XForms and OpenDocument in OpenOffice.org

Resource: Submitted by dpharbison on Wed, 2006-11-01 14:13. Last updated on Wed, 2006-11-01 19:01.

This is an excellent technical tutorial revealing the complementary relationship of two open standards: OpenDocument Format (ISO 26300) and W3C's XForms. The tutorial presents the basic concepts of XForms, illustrating how to create form controls whose data is bound to parts of an XML data instance, and how to save that data in a local file or send it to a server.

Opportunities for innovation with OpenDocument Format XML.

Resource: Submitted by dpharbison on Wed, 2006-11-01 13:59. Last updated on Wed, 2006-11-01 19:02.

Using open document data to build innovative new solutions - an IBM White Paper.

This short white paper explores several approaches to using ODF XML document data other than found in today's implementations of personal productivity applications. See the link below for some other uses of ODF enumerated by Rob Weir of IBM.

Proposal for an OpenDocument Developers Kit (ODDK)

Resource: Submitted by rcweir on Thu, 2006-09-21 16:02. Last updated on Thu, 2006-09-21 16:07.

The attached essay describes functionality which I believe would greatly enhance the ability of application developers to become productive with ODF. It is somethig I call an Open Document Developers Kit (ODDF). I welcome your comments on this essay in the programming discussion forums.

-Rob